K8GL CQWW SSB

I'm posting this for a friend.
Score of K8GL CQWW SSB (single op, single band-20 meters)
563 Qs
32 Zones
121 Countries
237,762 Points
Via Perry, WR0G
>From Beryl D. Simonson" <KE3GA at delphi.com Thu Nov 3 00:59:02 1994
From: Beryl D. Simonson" <KE3GA at delphi.com (Beryl D. Simonson)
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1994 19:59:02 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Warning about PDA's Logic
Message-ID: <01HJ0L536SWI9N5KAA at delphi.com>
I've been a Logic user for almost two years and have absolutely no
complaints. I started with DOS and upgraded to Windows when it became
available. Dennis gives great support when needed (often forwards his phone
to his home so you can get him on nights and weekends), and has a top notch
product.
The complaints about copy protection just do not make sense. It takes
seconds to put the disk in the computer when you change your configuration,
and might induce some people to pay for a quality product that would not
otherwise do so. I find it a bother to use a key in my car and office also,
but at least they stay somewhat secure.
Let's stop beating on people who try to make a living from this business, I
think they do it more out of love for the hobby than to make a real living.
What we do if we had to buy software form commercial producers--pay $400 or
$500 for a logging or contest program?
My $0.02 worth.
Beryl
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Beryl D. Simonson Internet KE3GA at DELPHI.COM
Wynnewood, PA 19096 PacketCluster KE3GA at WB2YOF
Frankford Radio Club
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>From Randy A Thompson <K5ZD at world.std.com> Wed Nov 2 21:14:12 1994
From: Randy A Thompson <K5ZD at world.std.com> (Randy A Thompson)
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 21:15:12 +0001 (EST)
Subject: WW Phone Score K5ZD (long message)
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9411022115.E740-0100000 at world.std.com>
Reflections on the WW Phone from K5ZD.
Contest - 2 weeks
Started with an empty room and assembled a station. All new antennas and
feedlines. No idea what works and what doesn't.
Contest - 1 week
Went to LAX for trade show.
Contest - 36 hours
Woke up Thursday morning. Can't hear out of my right ear. Monday after
contest it is diagnosed as a blockage due to wax build-up. Did the contest
with 1-1/2 ears!
Contest - 24 hours
Sit on balconey at Disneyland Hotel and watch sun go down. Wonder how
I will ever get home and get things to work. Much less get motivated to
do a serious effort.
Contest - 8 hours
Arrive home from red eye flight. Go to bed.
Contest - 4 hours
Wake up and see if station will work. One bad coax to replace.
Some computer and DVP problems to solve. One trip up tower to
try to fix 20 meter stack (doesn't work).
Contest
Contest begins with about the conditions I expect. Not too motivated but
operate because I want to see what works. My wife is not happy that I
came home and went straight into a contest. My plan is to quit if
ANYTHING breaks!
This is kind of fun. I like the late night band hopping and multiplier
chasing...
Sunrise
Hey! Where are the Europeans! K1AR stops by to chat and we compare numbers.
I would never do this, but I don't really plan to be competitive, so
I do. He is 80 QSOs up (wow!) and 40 mults up (double wow!).
Condx are terrible. No Europeans on 15m the first day! All the signals
on 20 have lots of flutter. Keep grinding away with two hopes: 20m will
be better in the afternoon, and the bands will be better tomorrow. Decide
my goal will be to chase after K1AR and try to catch him on QSOs and let
the mults take care of themselves.
Good run on 20 in the afternoon. Next time John and I compare I have
caught up enough to have some hope. The competitive fire and motivation
crank up. He caught some Europe on 15 while I was running on 20, but
I bet the farm that 15 will open tomorrow.
Keep pounding the low bands all night. Am surprisingly awake, but decide
I will sleep to be fresh on Sunday when the rates will be higher. Make
myself go to sleep at 0800z for 3 hours.
Sunday
Bands sound better (not great). No flutter on 20 and 15 opens slowly.
Work G0KPW on 15 and he tells me their 10m frequency. Put the second
radio there just to see if I can hear him. I can - and they are very
loud on scatter! It's an easy QSO so I spend some time chasing mults on 10.
Work DJ4PT, S51AY. Can't get an Italian. Decide I have wasted enough time
and go to 15 to run.
Have an hour over a 100. K1AR immediatly checks in to tell me he just
had a 170 hour. How does he do it? Is it the 4-stack at K1EA or does he
just talk real fast? I am undaunted!
Rest of the contest is a CQ exercise. I didn't use the second radio much
on Saturday but start to work harder on Sunday. It pays off in lots of
mults.
Last 2 hours are no good for Europe. Spend my time chasing South Americans
on 10/15 (amazing how many of them there are). Work some VEs on 75.
Catch 6 new countries in last 10 minutes on 40. Makes for a good ending.
Comments
Activity was definitely down. Bad conditions make it hard for the small
stations to stay on.
160 was great the first night and terrible the second.
This contest was kind of fun. Much like my early efforts from Texas.
Lots of hunt & pounce with occasional runs. Just the way I like it.
More fun than the 12 hours of straight CQing normally required from W1.
Didn't seem to be as many lids as normal (or maybe I just missed them).
Only ran into a few pile-ups that I walked away from because there were
too many lids. I did find some mults just when they came on, but never got
through because the packet guys came on so fast. It is crucial to get
through early because once the first packet guy gets a QSO, the level
of competition (some of it very obnoxious multi-ops) goes up.
I publicly admit it. K1AR is pretty good at this stuff. I was operating
head down the whole weekend. This is so easy for John that he beats me
AND tunes around the band having ragchews with everyone. Oh well...
maybe next year when I get the 20m stack working!
Here are the numbers. See you on CW.
Randy, K5ZD
K5ZD at world.std.com
CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1994
Call: K5ZD Country: United States
Mode: SSB Category: Single Operator
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
160 39 94 2.41 13 25
80 249 654 2.63 21 71
40 205 572 2.79 21 70
20 1083 3160 2.92 33 132
15 359 1017 2.83 24 102
10 109 289 2.65 15 44
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Totals 2044 5786 2.83 127 444 => 3,303,806
Equipment Description:
IC-765 + Alpha 76, TS-930 + L-4B
160m 1/4-wave GP, 80m Inverted vee @90', 40m 40-2CD @110'
20m 205CA @100', 205CA @50'
15m 5-ele @75'
10m 6-ele @67' fixed South
TH7DXX @70'
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K5ZD CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Single Operator
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... ..... 66/28 ..... ..... 66/28 66/28
1 . . 49/19 9/4 . . 58/23 124/51
2 . 27/18 31/10 2/2 . . 60/30 184/81
3 . 58/21 . 3/1 . . 61/22 245/103
4 8/8 24/8 10/5 . . . 42/21 287/124
5 12/8 10/4 10/6 . . . 32/18 319/142
6 6/4 36/4 . . . . 42/8 361/150
7 . 11/4 10/3 2/2 . . 23/9 384/159
8 4/3 10/3 1/1 2/2 ..... ..... 17/9 401/168
9 . 3/1 12/6 1/0 . . 16/7 417/175
10 . 6/3 9/4 4/3 . . 19/10 436/185
11 . 2/1 2/2 20/10 20/14 . 44/27 480/212
12 . . . 42/15 2/2 . 44/17 524/229
13 . . . 23/3 11/6 . 34/9 558/238
14 . . . 29/8 7/2 . 36/10 594/248
15 . . . 23/2 . . 23/2 617/250
16 ..... ..... ..... 83/4 ..... 6/6 89/10 706/260
17 . . . 119/7 . . 119/7 825/267
18 . . . 114/8 3/2 . 117/10 942/277
19 . . . 73/6 7/4 9/8 89/18 1031/295
20 . . . 39/2 13/5 9/3 61/10 1092/305
21 . . . 15/1 6/1 . 21/2 1113/307
22 . . 8/2 22/6 . . 30/8 1143/315
23 . 11/1 4/2 5/3 . . 20/6 1163/321
0 ..... ..... ..... 30/1 ..... ..... 30/1 1193/322
1 . . 19/2 3/1 . . 22/3 1215/325
2 1/1 12/0 2/0 . . . 15/1 1230/326
3 1/0 3/2 2/2 11/1 . . 17/5 1247/331
4 1/0 12/2 2/0 . . . 15/2 1262/333
5 3/2 . 12/2 1/0 . . 16/4 1278/337
6 2/1 7/1 4/0 . . . 13/2 1291/339
7 . . 2/0 . . . 2/0 1293/339
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 1293/339
9 . . . . . . . 1293/339
10 1/0 2/1 1/0 4/4 . . 8/5 1301/344
11 . . . 24/0 . . 24/0 1325/344
12 . . . 48/0 15/10 . 63/10 1388/354
13 . . . . 30/15 16/10 46/25 1434/379
14 . . . . 28/11 19/8 47/19 1481/398
15 . . . . 105/14 . 105/14 1586/412
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 72/6 9/2 81/8 1667/420
17 . . . 81/1 3/2 4/1 88/4 1755/424
18 . . . 77/5 4/2 . 81/7 1836/431
19 . . . 56/1 3/2 16/7 75/10 1911/441
20 . . . 34/1 8/2 4/0 46/3 1957/444
21 . . . 16/3 7/2 . 23/5 1980/449
22 . . . . 15/2 17/1 32/3 2012/452
23 . 15/0 15/7 2/1 . . 32/8 2044/460
DAY1 30/23 198/68 146/60 696/117 69/36 24/17 ..... 1163/321
DAY2 9/4 51/6 59/13 387/19 290/68 85/29 . 881/139
TOT 39/27 249/74 205/73 1083/136 359/104 109/46 . 2044/460
BREAKDOWN by Operating Time/Rate per Band
DAY1 1.1/27 4.7/43 3.3/44 10.6/66 1.4/48 0.3/70 ..... 21.5/54
DAY2 0.5/17 2.0/25 2.4/25 7.7/50 4.1/70 1.9/45 . 18.6/47
TOT 1.7/23 6.7/37 5.7/36 18.3/59 5.6/64 2.2/49 . 40.1/51
Continent Statistics
K5ZD CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Single Operator
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America 19 91 41 85 56 32 324 15.9
South America 4 25 26 60 59 69 243 11.9
Europe 13 124 123 840 217 5 1322 64.7
Asia 0 1 0 63 2 0 66 3.2
Africa 3 4 9 30 19 1 66 3.2
Oceania 0 4 6 5 6 2 23 1.1
>From Robert Wood <w5robert at blkbox.COM> Thu Nov 3 03:18:09 1994
From: Robert Wood <w5robert at blkbox.COM> (Robert Wood)
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 21:18:09 -0600 (CST)
Subject: SOA score/notes
Message-ID: <9411022118.aa20528 at blkbox.COM>
Put out 138 spots, worked xf4m,v31dx,v47z,zf2ji,pj1b,&vp2e 5 bands.
160 antenna on ground. 226K total. (may submit as a S/B if CT
shows the single band score with multi-band worked)
--
73 Robert
WB5CRG
>From AGDM25A at prodigy.com ( KEVIN - WA8ZDT) Thu Nov 3 04:59:55 1994
From: AGDM25A at prodigy.com ( KEVIN - WA8ZDT) ( KEVIN - WA8ZDT)
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1994 23:59:55 EST
Subject: SS-PREP
Message-ID: <013.01667197.AGDM25A at prodigy.com>
Recently K3WW and K5ZD have written about their physical preparation prior
to a contest. K3WW described his pre-contest "ritual" in the ARRL DX test
write-up on page 116 of the October QST, and K5ZD wrote about the physical
preparation of contesting in the Sept/Oct NCJ. Both authors stressed the
importance of starting the contest well rested with plenty of sleep. K5ZD
even suggested jogging and physical exercise to build up "endurance". I
agree .... physical preparation is important. In light of this important
information, here is the routine I would like to use to prepare for this
weekend's SSCW.
Friday night - Take a loooong hot bath. Soak in the tub and study the SS
writeup in April's QST. Then put on my special red fleece Mr. Roger's
pajamas, the ones with the feet sewn in. Drink one 8oz glass of warm
milk, and dip (3) Oreo cookies in it. Watch a couple of Ren & Stempe
cartoon reruns, unplug the telephone, put in earplugs, set the thermostat
at 72 degrees, and go to bed at xactly 9:30PM.
Wake up at xactly 6:44AM (my usual routine). Eat a light breakfast of
jelly toast and decaff coffee. Don't bother shaving, (I'll do that during
my Saturday night break).
OH, what the hell! Notice I said its the routine I WOULD LIKE to use...
Actually, my contest physical preparation will go something like this...
Friday morning - Seven year old daughter wakes me up at 6:30AM. Send her
to school. Head into work, and run run run flat out for fourteen hours
until 11:30PM. Then follow co-workers to the local sports bar to unwind.
Finally - home to bed at 2:30AM.... Pop awake five hours later at 7:30A
with a hangover and "buzzzz" Drink eight cups of coffee - brewed six
scoops of grounds to six cups of water. Rake the yard leaves or some
obnoxious household chore for three hours. Fire-up the station about
12Noon, and discover some antenna problem that necessitates climbing up and
down a 120' tower three times in freezing weather with no gloves. Thaw out
my hands and sit down to rig about ten minutes before the start of the contest.
Actually I don't start the contest without first making a trip to the local
party store for some contest supplies... a fresh bottle of NO-DOZ 200mg
caffine tablets, a couple eight-packs of Diet Coke, a large bag of Lays
potato chips, a half pint of sourcream for dip, and a dozen chocolate
doughnuts for Sunday morning's breakfast. If its a phone contest, throat
lozenges and a half pint of Jim Beam.
During the contest I snack on the above and drink full strength coffee as
needed. I also find an occasional 807 during the slow times Sunday
afternoon helps relieve the boredom.
Unlike K3WW, I don't bother shaving during my Saturday night "break" -
whose gonna see me anyway?
CU this weekend ... kevn - WA8ZDT